The Renegades

Charlie Hood, a veteran of the Iraq War, is a modern-day lawman with the soul of a 19th century western sheriff. Charlie is a deputy in the L.A. Sheriff's Department, and he cruises the Antelope Valley in the desert north of the city. Charlie loves to drive, preferably alone, and preferably late at......more

Second verse better than The first! The Renegade is the second book of the Charlie Hood series and I give it 5 1/2 stars. T.Jefferson Parker knows how to keep the reader turning pages from start to finish! I highly recommend his books to my Goodreads friends!!!......more

4 1/2! Parker has his own style, writing succinct prose that says alot with a little. Hood is a deputy near L.A. patrolling Antelope Valley with a partner, Laws. After intervening in a Housing Authority dispute, his partner is shot to death in the patrol car, and Hood is invited into Internal Affair......more

I’ve read the Hood stories not in order. It is very nice to see how Hood grows when I already know wheee he ends up.......more

This latest from T. Jefferson Parker is another cop and robber tale. Charlie Hood, is assigned to Antelope Valley, in California, and is riding with his partner Terry Laws, when they go to a housing project to join to Housing Authority case workers, who are investigating a report of drugs in an apar......more